Until We Meet Again

GM Notes

A Tale from the Time of New Worlds for 5 players

by Jeff Diewald, Jordan Diewald, and Will Fergus

Tale Materials

The Tale requires the following characters:

Characters
Name Species Race Summary
6.01 Captain P€nd€r Wetware Rh€'aaa Young and inexperienced Captain of the First Contact ship Vigorous Felicitation
6.02 Lieutenant Lem Wetware Human Grizzled pilot of the First Contact ship Vigorous Felicitation
6.03 Corwyn Software Chern Android Once part of Rustbeard's First Contact pirate gang, left here to starve to death and rot
6.04 Grand Entertainer Djenni Rhater Wetware Gennai The Proto-Ensign, the first of the Gennai, in charge of the entertainment for any of the Fleet that may appear
6.05 Master Culinarian Kay Junn Wetware Gennai The Chef, with the honor to feed the Fleet with blessed godmeet

The Tale requires the following materials:

Component Copies Copies to:
The Fleet's Tale 2 Captain P€nd€r, Lieutenant Lem
The Gennai's Tale 2 Grand Entertainer Djenni Rhater, Master Culinarian Kay Junn
The Blasphemer's Tale 1 Corwyn

Framing Text (Read Before the Tale)

We all deal with First Contacts in our lives, but we rarely find something so alien that we cannot relate to it. First Contacts are dangerous, for they bring unexpected and significant change, to both sides of the contact. Are we well met along our course? After contact, what happens in the time Until We Meet Again?

Location of the Tale

A ceremonial festival site, next to a landing pad, on Gennai Prime.

Props

The following props may be useful:

GM Notes

I think the Tale speaks for itself, and Jeff's need for a break in quarantine!

Safety Concerns

Cannibalism, Cult Behavior, Mutilation, Religious Fervor, Sadistic Abuse

References

Will Fergus wrote the first draft of a Tale called An Unconventional Introduction for Across the Sea of Stars. It didn't get finished, but stayed in the back of Jeff's head. As Jeff and Jordan were working on Journey, this variant of Will's brilliant idea jumped fully-formed, in all its horror, into Jeff's skull. His therapy is getting it down into bits, with Jordan's help.

Almost all of Will's original text has been used directly this material, mostly unchanged. Will reviewed the result, liked it, and approved its inclusion in the game. And there was much rejoicing!

While Will's original title was still appropriate, the pun in Until We Meet Again was just too tasty for Jeff to resist.